The avatar tab lets you choose your bot's avatar. An avatar is the physical representation of your bot, and can include images, video, audio, and animation. You can choose an avatar from our open avatar directory, or create your own.
You can create your own avatar from the browse avatars page. To create an avatar, just give it a name, description, and category to categorize it under. You can either make the avatar private and choose who can access it, or make it public and accessible by anyone. You can also choose what license you wish to release its content under.
| Properties | Description |
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| Avatar Name | Enter an Avatar name. |
| Description | Optional description. |
| Details | You can enter optional additional information. |
| Disclaimer | You can enter optional legal information. |
| License | Optional license to release the avatar and all of its content under. |
| Website | If this avatar has its own website, you can enter it here. |
| Categories | Comma separated list of categories to categorize the avatar under. |
| Tags | Optional comma separated list of tags to tag the avatar under. |
| Private | A private avatar is not visible to the public, only to the user and users grant access. |
| Hidden | A hidden avatar is not displayed in the browse directory. |
| Access Mode | Define who can access this avatar. |
| Fork Access Mode | Define who can fork(copy) this avatar. |
| Content Rating | Rate the avatar. |
| Ad Code | You can display ads on your avatar's pages. |
The avatar editor allows you to upload or import images, video, and audio files for your avatar, and tag them with emotions, actions, and poses. You can add as many images, videos, or audio as you want, and they will be randomly selected if not tagged. If tagged, they will only be used when the bot expresses the tagged emotion, action, or pose. You should have at least a 'talking' pose tagged, this will be displayed when the bot is talking.
To edit the avatar, click on the Editor button. The avatar editor lets you import video, audio, and image files. You can associate each media with an emotion, action, or pose. For example if you have a video that makes the avatar talk, you would associate the pose for the video to talking. The emotions let the avatar express different emotions, and will let the bot using the avatar express itself. There are a fixed set of emotions, but you can create any actions and poses that you wish. You can have multiple media for a emotions, action, or pose, and one will be chosen at random. For actions, and poses, you can have an audio element in addition to a video element. Audio can be used to make your avatar perform actions such as laugh, or used as background music or noise for a pose.
| Icon | Property Name | Description |
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Save | Save the current changes. |
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Select | Select all media. |
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Delete | Delete the selected media. |
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Upload | Upload images, video, or sound files for the avatar. |
| Icon | Property Name | Description |
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Upload | Upload a background image to overlay video on (this can reduce the video flicker). |
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Clear | Clear the background image. |
| Property Name | Description |
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| Emotions | Comma separated list of emotions to trigger the media. |
| Actions | Comma separated list of actions to trigger the media. |
| Poses | Comma separated list of poses to trigger the media. |
The avatar embed page allows you test the avatar and generate embedding code to add the avatar to your own website.
| Properties | Description |
|---|---|
| Speech | The text for the avatar to speak. |
| Guest User | Guest user to connect as, you need to add this user to your avatar's users (do not use your own user id). |
| Password | Password for guest user (not secure). |
| Token | Token for guest user (this will expire, use a guest user/password instead). |
| Server Voice | More than 30 server voices. |
| Voice Modifier | Several voice modifier. |
| Native Voice | The name of the native voice. A native browser voice can be used on Chrome or browses that support the HTML Speech API. |
| Responsive Voice | Use the third party voice API from ResponsiveVoice. |
| Language | The language code for the native voice. |
| Width | The width (in pixels) of the avatar box. |
| Height | The height (in pixels) of the avatar box. |
| Background Color | The background color to use. |
| Emotion | Emotion for avatar to express. |
| Action | Action for avatar to perform. |
| Pose | Pose for avatar to hold. |
